Two-day conference, from Thursday 28 – Friday 29 June 2018, to be held at Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK
In conjunction with CPHC, Print Networks is organising a one-day conference that will consider the design, production and distribution of ‘industrial and business publishing’.
Call for papers for AHRC-funded conference looking at the role of letterpress printing, past, present and into the future
In conjunction with Winterbourne House and Garden, the Centre for Printing History and Culture is organising a two-day international conference, which aims to review and reassess the contribution made by women to printing and print culture from its origins to the present day.
In conjunction with L’École supérieure d’art et de design d’Amiens (esad), the Centre for Printing History & Culture (cphc) is organising a two-day international conference which aims to review and reassess the relationship between Baskerville—the man and the typeface—and France and the French.
a retrospective look at over one hundred years of print design in Egypt.
Presentation Wednesdays offer students a chance to develop their ideas in a supportive environment of their peers
This is the third in the series of AHRC-Funded workshops, part of the Letterpress Printing: past, present and future project
The University of Birmingham’s Arts & Science Festival is a week-long celebration of research, culture and collaboration across campus and beyond. It is is an opportunity for curious minds to delve into new thinking from leading academics.
Presentation Wednesdays offer students a chance to develop their ideas in a supportive environment of their peers
Presentation Wednesdays offer students a chance to develop their ideas in a supportive environment of their peers
Edited by Caroline Archer-Parré and Malcolm Dick, and published by Liverpool University Press, this is the first book to be published on the Birmingham printer for over forty years. It places Baskerville within his local, national and global context as a figure of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment.
This will be an informal event to launch the book and will include a talk by Susan Whyman, podcast and radio boradcast. All are welcome to join us and bring festive nibbles and refreshments, including wine or soft drinks, if you wish.
Call for papers for a two-day conference, from Thursday 28 – Friday 29 June 2018, to be held at Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK
Sharing ways in which historic printing is – and might be – used in research, practice and teaching.
A celebratory exhibtion of Baskerville's life and work.
This interdisciplinary symposium provides an original contribution to printing history, eighteenth-century studies and the dissemination of ideas.
Presentation Wednesdays offer students a chance to develop their ideas in a supportive environment of their peers.
As part of Birmingham's Literature Festival, Sunday 8 October has been designated 'Baskerville Day.'
This Workshop explores how the rich history of printing is related to the survival of historic equipment.
The Baskerville Society is delighted to announce that its next event will be a vist to the Chained Library at Wells Cathedral, Somerset.
Print, politics and publishing: the role of the provincial press
This year we look at the question: what constitutes printing history and what is print culture?
A summer school for those how found themselves working as historians by accident rather than design
Presentation Wednesdays offer doctoral students a chance to develop their ideas in a supportive environment of their peers
This one-day workshop will explore collaborative book production from the Middle Ages to the present day.
The Centre for Printing History & Culture, in conjunction with the Printing Historical Society and the National Print Museum.
Print culture, popular readership and the emergence of a genre in colonial Lagos
Phil Abel provides a glimpse in the the year in the life of Hand & Eye Letterpress.
Toshi Omagari discusses validity of what he was taught as type design student and tries to debunk myths in typeface design.
Trine Rask talks about her typeface North, a book typeface optimized for the Scandinavian languages, and her other founts Covergirl, Rum and Karen.
Join the Baskerville Society for a private tour of Lichfield Cathedral library and view it's significant holdings of manuscripts and books
Jonathan Barnbrook summarises his career up until this point.
